A €7.7 million brainstorming centre to devise new treatments for cardiovascular and cardiac rhythm disease is due to be opened by EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research and Science, Máire Geoghan-Quinn, at Medtronic’s premises in Galway today. Up to 500 doctors and other medical professionals are expected to spend time in the centre, working with engineers in collaboration, demonstration and hybrid laboratories where surgical procedures can be tried and tested.